Lincoln calls for vote on Linder's resolution and it is defeated. Senate
resolution for investigation of Springfield and Shawneetown banks is adopted with minor
amendments. Lincoln continues to oppose investigation.House Journal.

[Lincoln's name does not appear in proceedings. Dawson presents
"petition and remonstrance of sundry citizens of Sangamon County, praying the
establishment of the county of Dane, and against a division of Sangamon County
into four equal parts." On Dawson's motion petition is tabled.
House
Journal.]

Lincoln attends legislature for at least part of day, but he "is reduced
and emaciated in appearance and seems scarcely to possess strength enough to speak
above a whisper. His case at present is truly deplorable but what prospect there may be
for ultimate relief I cannot pretend to say."
Carl Sandburg and Paul M. Angle, Mary Lincoln, 179.

Argument begun yesterday in England v. Clark is continued by Edwards and Bledsoe for defendant and
concluded by Lincoln for plaintiff. (On February 8, 1844, judgment of lower court is
affirmed.)Record; 5 Ill. 486.

Lincoln votes against reconsideration of bill granting compensation
for slave sent west with Indians. He votes against passage, but it
passes 101-95.
Globe.

To J. B. Herrick, who has recommended William M. Black for register
of Land Office at Vandalia, Lincoln writes: "I shall, when the time
comes, try to do right, in view of all the lights then before me."
Abraham Lincoln to Josiah B. Herrick, 19 January 1849, CW, 2:23-24.

In case in which he wrote affidavit for Rowan January 14, 1857,
Lincoln himself makes affidavit that he has no knowledge of bond for
costs having been filedand that he has seen none in papers in case.
Original owned by James A. Jones, Springfield, Ill.

Lincoln files declaration in
Piatt v. Wilson in U.S. Circuit Court.
Defendant is charged with unlawful possession of land in Hamilton County. Hay
and Cullom enter defendant's appearance, waive service of declaration and
notice, and file plea of general issue, which Lincoln wrote. Files;
Record.

In evening Cong. William Kellogg (Ill.), member of House Committee of
Thirty-three, arrives in Springfield to confer with Lincoln. "His
object is supposed to be in reference to a compromise of the national
difficulties."
N.Y. Tribune, 22 January 1861.

President replies to laudatory address from
workingmen of Manchester, England: "It is now a pleasant duty to acknowledge
the demonstration you have given of your desire that a spirit of peace and
amity towards this country may prevail in the councils of your Queen." Abraham
Lincoln to the Workingmen of Manchester, England, 19 January 1863,
CW, 6:63-65.

President telegraphs Robert: "There is a good deal of smallpox here.
Your friends must judge for themselves whether they ought to come or
not."
Abraham Lincoln to Robert T. Lincoln, 19 January 1864, CW, 7:137.

President Lincoln writes to Lieut.-General Ulysses S. Grant
regarding Robert Lincoln, the President's oldest son, who "wishes to see
something of the war before it ends." Lincoln instructs Grant to respond with
his honest opinion and without regard to Lincoln's position as President.
Lincoln directs Grant to reserve "commission[s]" for more deserving candidates,
and asks if Robert "could . . . without embarrassment to you, or detriment to the
service," obtain "some nominal rank, I, and not the public, furnishing his
necessary means?" Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S.
Grant, 19 January 1865, CW,
8:223-24.

Lincoln attends ceremonies of U.S. Christian Commission in
House of Representatives. LL, No. 450.

Directs Sec. Stanton to consider
investigating appeals "made to us by persons claiming to have attempted to come
through our lines with their effects to take the benefit of the Amnesty
proclamation." Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M.
Stanton, 19 January 1865, CW,
8:225.

Notifies Sec. Usher that he will appoint Vital Jarrot of
Illinois, Indian Agent of Sioux on the Platte, if there is no objection.
Abraham Lincoln to John P. Usher,
19 January 1865, CW, 8:225-26.

Lincoln writes to Major General Edward O. C. Ord regarding Frank Judd,
who currently assumes an alias. Judd is the son of Norman B. Judd, who managed
Lincoln's 1860 presidential campaign and who now serves as Minister to Prussia.
Lincoln explains, "You have a man in arrest for desertion passing by the name
of Stanley—William Stanley I think—but whose real name is
different. He is the son of so close a friend of mine that I must not let him
be executed. Please let me know what is his present and prospective condition."
Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler, 29 December 1864,
CW, 8:189-190; Abraham Lincoln to Edward O. C. Ord,
19 January 1865, CW, 8:224.